viii, 191 pages : 22 cm

Foreword / Brian Leigh Dunnigan -- Introduction / Denver Brunsman -- Part one. Early British Detroit: Tenuous relations. On fragile ground: Donald Campbell and the question of amity in early Detroit / Jeff Beauchamp ; The myth of the maiden and Pontiac's real betrayer / Jerold Sommerville ; Getting away with murder: Elizabeth Fisher, Alexis Cuillerier, and the cultural complexities of early Detroit / Steve Lyskawa ; British Métis in eighteenth-century Detroit: The Askin and Mitchell families / Nicole Satrun ; Robert and Elizabeth Rogers: the dissolution of an early American marriage / Ann Marie Wambeke ; Belle Isle and Grosse Ile: the islands in-between / Cathryn Eccleston ; The Potawatomi Indians of Detroit: Great Lakes pioneers / Susan Ward -- Part two. Revolutionary war: raids and coercion. Liberty hangs at Detroit: the trial and execution of Jean Contencineau / Errin T. Stegich ; Clark and Lernoult: reduction by expansion / Donald Lee ; Little Navy on the Great Lakes / Stephen al-Hakim ; American sympathy and resistance in British Detroit / Alexandria Reid ; Crawford's defeat: raids and retaliation on the frontier / John Maisner ; Unfree Detroit: the varied experiences of American prisoners / Caitlyn A.O. Perry ; John Leeth: neutral on the run / Juliegha Norus ; Caught in the revolution: the Moravians in Detroit / Melissa R. Luberti -- Part three. Late British to early American Detroit: gradual transition. The courts of Hesse as a middle ground / Sharon Tevis Finch ; Blue Jacket: Pan-Indian leader, warrior, and cultural mediator / Molon Rahman ; Safe at home: the French in Detroit / Leslie Riehl ; From Detroit to Fort Malden: the transfer of sovereignty and subjects / Mark A. Mallia ; Meldrum & Park: commerce, society, and loyalty in frontier Detroit / Charles Wilson Goode ; Will diligently and faithfully serve: Mr. Askin's indentured servants / Kimberly Steele ; A dollar lost, a life taken: the impact of Great Lakes shipwrecks on Detroit / Jaclyn Kinney ; Loyalty for sale: British Detroiters and the new American regime / Douglas D. Fisher ; David Bacon: Detroit meets America / Joshua Shelly

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-191)

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